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ICE confirms use of spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed it is using a spyware tool capable of hacking phones and intercepting ...
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Apple says Lockdown Mode has blocked mercenary spyware attacks so far

Apple says its Lockdown Mode is designed to protect high-risk iPhone users from sophisticated surveillance tools, and ...
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Serbian police used Cellebrite to unlock, then plant spyware on, a journalist’s phone

This year, a Serbian journalist and an activist had their phones hacked by local authorities using a cellphone-unlocking device made by forensic tool maker Cellebrite. The authorities’ goal was not ...
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It started as a quiet upload on GitHub until a tool called DarkSword began exposing a vulnerability that could affect hundreds of millions of iPhones

What began as a leak to GitHub has spread across the internet like wildfire. DarkSword is a spyware system that can affect ...
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Meet the team that investigates when journalists and activists get hacked with government spyware

For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been targeted and hacked by governments all over the world. Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, ...